Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

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  • Shawn Zipay
    Managing Communities 24/7
    • Apr 2003
    • 69279

    #1

    Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

    The first unlock for the Soldier was revealed today on the latest Team Fortress 2 war update! Behold the "Direct Hit" rocket launcher.

    Nobody can deny that, measured solely by their ability to blow people into chunky clouds of tomato soup, rockets are an incredible force for good in the world. But with their wide blast radius, they are not a particularly terrific weapon for showing off your sharpshooting skills.

    Until now. A high precision version of the standard-issue rocket launcher, the Direct Hit has been engineered from the ground up for Soldiers who have mastered the art of shooting at their targets instead of vaguely near them. Those of you looking to deal splash damage, stop reading now: the Direct Hit has a 70% smaller blast radius than a traditional rocket launcher. But the rockets that come out of this thing move fast and hit hard: 80% faster and with 25% more destructive force. Best of all, for you real sharpshooters, the Direct Hit guarantees mini-crits on airborne targets.

    A new Soldier based comic has gone up and Valve introduced all new TF2 items to the Valve Store. Pimp out your iPhone with a custom skin or pick up a new War based t-shirt, all of that and more can be found right here. The current war totals have the Soldier just edging out the Demoman, 5.1M kills to 4.9M kills.

    A free weekend for Team Fortress 2 begins this Thursday, so start those pre-loads!
  • jake_
    Fitter, Happier.
    • Mar 2007
    • 4959

    #2
    Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

    This makes me giddy.

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    • BobTheJob
      Senior Member
      • May 2007
      • 1189

      #3
      Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

      this looks awesome

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      • Micster
        Member
        • Jul 2007
        • 2474

        #4
        Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

        This looks like hell for Sentry Guns.

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        • =)BiT(= Evant3k
          Member
          • Aug 2007
          • 1426

          #5
          Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

          I think this means if you have this equipped you wont be able to rocket jump, so I think it will be useless.

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          • Yukiism
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2006
            • 1578

            #6
            Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

            80% faster sure sounds good to me!

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            • iQue
              Member
              • May 2007
              • 4925

              #7
              Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

              Originally posted by =)BiT(= Evant3k
              I think this means if you have this equipped you wont be able to rocket jump, so I think it will be useless.
              Either that or a small clip/long reloading time.

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              • jake_
                Fitter, Happier.
                • Mar 2007
                • 4959

                #8
                Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

                When valve introduces new weapons, they're nearly always well balanced (Backburner was overpowered, but then they nerfed it D:).

                This should be a worthy addition, maybe I'll play Soldier more from now on. :p

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                • Kodakk
                  Member
                  • Oct 2006
                  • 3486

                  #9
                  Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

                  The thing I'm worried about is the fact that while you will get mini-crits for airshots, how often will you be air shotting? Because of the decreased explosion radius, you won't be launching targets into the air...

                  Still looks awesome as long as I can still rocket jump

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                  • =)BiT(= Evant3k
                    Member
                    • Aug 2007
                    • 1426

                    #10
                    Re: Soldier Weapon Reveal - Team Fortress 2 War Update for Tuesday

                    Originally posted by jake_
                    When valve introduces new weapons, they're nearly always well balanced (Backburner was overpowered, but then they nerfed it D:).

                    This should be a worthy addition, maybe I'll play Soldier more from now on. :p
                    Never liked the backburner, it doesn't have airblast and that is the best part of being a pyro.

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